Includes bibliographical references and index.

The usefulness of borderlands concepts in ancient history : the case of origen as monster / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser -- Structures of power in late antique borderlands : Arabs, Romans, and Berbers / Greg Fisher and Alexander Drost -- The transborder economy of medieval Cistercian monasteries in the southern Baltic Sea region / Manja Olschowski -- Visionaries, violence, and the legacy of trauma on the Maine frontier during King Philip's War, 1675-1677/ Ann Marie Plane -- Swedish Pomerania in the eighteenth century : the development of Frihet in a borderland of the Baltic Sea Region / Stefan Herfurth -- The Duchy of Courland from 1650 to 1737 : transformation of a religious borderland in the Baltic Sea region / Kord-Henning Uber -- Native borderlands : colonialism and the development of native power / Clint Smith -- Beyond red-light districts : regional and transnational migration in the Mexican-U.S. borderlands, 1870-1912 / Veronica Castillo-Munoz -- Medicalizing the borders of an expanding state : physicians, sanitary reports, and the frontiers of Mexican progress, 1930-1950 / Gabriela Soto Laveaga -- Theorizing the social functioning of political borders through studies of cross-border petty trade / Olga Sasunkevich -- Future directions in borderlands studies / Alexander Drost and Michael North.

"Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions--all of which may vary by region and over time. John W.I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands. Gathering the voices of a diverse range of international scholars, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America presents case studies from ancient to modern times, highlighting topics ranging from religious conflicts to medical frontiers to petty trade. Spanning geographical regions of Europe, the Baltics, North Africa, the American West, and Mexico, these essays shed new light on the complex processes of boundary construction, maintenance, and crossing, as well as on the importance of economic, political, social, ethnic, and religious interactions in the borderlands. Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America not only forges links between past and present scholarship but also paves the way for new models and approaches in future borderlands research"-- Provided by publisher.

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